In Mathew 5:13, Yahshua bestowed upon us a most honourable responsibility as follows, "...you are the salt of the earth..." In this wisdom of Abba Elohim (G-d) we the children are bestowed many privileges of reconciliation. To understand this great responsibility, it is important to understand the following:

1. The essence of salt is fully discovered in food for we do not eat salt as food. So what is food in this context?
2. Who are the consumers of this food?
3. Who is the owner or who prepares the food?
4. What shall we do to ensure that we fully carry out this task of being favourable salt?

In the most basic form, food is a package of immortality/life that facilitates our mortal beings experience the immortality of HaShem. From Genesis chapters 1 and 2, we find Adam, the first man, who was made from the earth, Adamah, was given food that grows from the earth to sustain Adam and keep him alive. Of course, we know the earth does not have a life of its own, for HaShem is the fountain of life as Psalms 36:9 states. We, therefore, see a most ingenious move by HaShem: since Adam is too frail to directly tap on the too energetic life from the Creator, the earth, through plants that make food, moderates the too powerful vibrations of HIS life into a form absorbable by humans. The All-Wise Abba (Father) tailor-makes these unique parcels: be it, cereals, fruits, vegetables in such a way that our frail bodies can unpackage them and reach the little gem of Abba captured therein, though it is just an instance of his existence captured in one meal. As such, food becomes the meeting point or the mediation between life and death, between immortality and mortality, between heaven and earth, between our righteous immortal Abba and mortal Adam.

It is from this understanding that King David invited all as follows in Psalms 34:8, "....O taste and sees that the LORD is good..." He understood that HaShem is the consumable entity. But how can mortals consume the immortal? Therefore, the wisdom of HaShem declares as follows in Yochanan/John 6:32, "....my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven...." Then he affirms as follows in the same chapter verses 35 to 40, "...I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst... For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me...And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." Just like food, Yahshua wore the earth and lived among us, moderating the glorious life of Abba and passing it onto us in a form whose energy we can withstand in our fallen state.

Now that we have seen that the Son of  HaShem (Proverbs 30:4), is the food/mediator between man and the Father, between mortality and immortality, who are the consumers?

Yochanan/John 6:33 states as follows, "...For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world." From this declaration, we find that the world is the consumer. 

We, therefore, get to understand that Yahshua, the Son of Elohim, is the food that we, who believe in him, should salt so as to make him palatable to the world. We also get to understand that Abba is the one who prepares the food and sets it on the table to be eaten.

To better understand our role of reconciling the world (fallen children of Adam) to our Father, let us examine a directive given by Elohim in Leviticus 2:13. HaShem directed as follows, "...And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt." It is of interest to note the choice of words by HaShem, the salt of the covenant of thy God. Our Father teaches us therein that salt acts as an essential part in the covenant between HIM and humans. The table of union, whereon food graces the gift of goodwill, partaken by any two agreeing parties, acts as a token  of absolute trust that neither can harm the other; for otherwise one can easily poison the other. But can the consumers really enjoy the meal if it is saltless? That is how important the salt of the covenant is: It enhances the joy of union between HaShem and the world; the consumers find the union palatable. 

In this privilege, there is no provision that we the salt can ever lose our flavour. I am yet to find salt that was once tasty and now no longer tastes salty. Actually II Chronicles 13:5 clearly teaches this perpetual nature of salt in that the salt seasoning the bites of goodwill and trust turns the pact into an Everlasting covenant. It is written as follows, "...Ought ye not to know that the LORD God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?" In this setting, where Elohim is the one who prepares the bread and sets it on the table where the world meets him for a pact of peace, the salt he seasons the food with, which is we who believe in Yahshua, signifies the irrevocable nature of HaShem; it signifies the faithfulness of HaShem and his trustworthiness in the covenant. 

Therefore, there is no provision that we, the salt, can afford to lose our flavour and embarrass the King, who is HaShem, in front of his enemies.  The enemies would be too happy to hurl insults at the King that the King set unseasoned, a most unpalatable meal before his guests! It would be a big insult that HaShem is not set to perpetually uphold the covenant of peace.

As such, our role as salt is the highest calling and calls for utmost care for if we do not play our role it is decreed as follows in Luke 14:34-35, "...Salt is good: but if the salt has lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned? It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

To help us maintain our flavour Yahshua taught us as follows in Mark 9:49, "...For every one shall be salted with fire..." He goes on to recall our role in this pact of peace between HaShem and the world and declares as follows in verse 50, "....Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another..." 

To better understand what Abba wants with us in these words of Yahshua, verses 39-40 explains it all. In these verses, Yahshua explains to us how much the Father longs for a whole, fully reconciled world. His disciples had rebuked a man who they felt was not one of them, yet he had executed the will of the Father in the name of Yahshua. This man was playing his role as salt but the disciples reneged on their role and attacked the man, violating the pact of peace. They lost their flavour and walked in an unbecoming manner unworthy of salt. In their jealousy, they attacked the man in public and made the world that was keenly following Yahshua, seated at the heavenly table lain by HaShem and enjoying every bite of bread from heaven stumble in confusion on whether Elohim was a god of favouritism. 

This was unworthy of the salt of the King of kings, therefore Yahshua rebuked them that none of us should ever be a stumbling block to the world in any way. Mark 9:43-48 expounds that our whole life should be enshrined in integrity lest we offend the most little of the world. He teaches that our day to day work with our hands, our way of life should be within the dictates of eternal life. Finally, he states that even our vision should be within the confines of the kingdom of heaven, for otherwise we will fall overboard into rottenness and require the wrath of HaShem to consume us in his fiery wrath. 

In this setting, we can only be seasoned if we have temperance. 

He explains in verses 43 and 44 that we should season the work of our hands by confining our endeavours within eternal life and if need be give up on a venture if it contravenes the law of eternal life and offends the world. The same with a given lifestyle or way of life in verses 45 and 46 and if need be give up on it if it offends the world. The same with progress in life or our visions if they are not as per the dictates of the kingdom of heaven. 

Yahshua here revealed the power of Sin; it is the destructive effects of small almost unnoticeable compromises of faith that we make in our day to day life as believers. He reveals that they lead to an irredeemable abhorrence as seen in Isaiah 66:24 where the only remedy is an inescapable purging by fire and worms. 

As Mathew 3:12 reveals, the fire alluded to by Yahshua in Mark 9  is the severity of holiness. Sustaining the savour is upholding the unadulterated sincere milk of the word, for our Abba is dangerously holy as Deuteronomy 4:24 states.

Yahshua categorically says that it is better to deny ourselves these indulgences for otherwise HaShem the King  will not suffer us to compromise his banquet in any way. He taught that the King, our Father, will not hesitate to throw us out where we will be trodden underfoot by men. 

He, therefore, tells us in Colossians 4:6 as follows, "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man..." Our life should be such that there is no marred conscience, courtesy of our recklessness; for the King will not afford a saltless salt. It is our noble duty, as salt, to make Yahshua palatable to the world.